Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Gavin Newsom (D) recently approved legislation that expands upon last years’ moves to strengthen hospice oversight in the state, among other enforcement actions. The bills — Senate Bill 664 and Assembly Bill 1280 — followed a Los Angeles Times investigation into alleged misconduct among hospice providers statewide. California Gov.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Past payment model demonstrations that included community-based palliative care offer a window into how these services could generate cost savings and improved quality. Among those demos is the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM), which ran between 2016 and 2021.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

NYSE: HCA) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) recently added a new graduate fellowship in hospice and palliative care medicine to their existing repertoire of training programs. Demand for culturally diverse hospice and palliative care in Florida is growing as minority aging populations swell.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2022

A federal court has sentenced Liana Karapetyan, former co-owner of California-based ANG Health Care, Excel Hospice, and Excel Home Healthcare, to 18 years in prison for hospice fraud and anti-kickback violations. Atoyan was co-owner of the hospice and home health businesses and has pled guilty for his role in the scheme.

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Hospice News

MAY 19, 2022

Hospice providers and patients are having difficulty procuring medications due to nationwide drug shortages, threatening quality of care and patients’ access to hospice. Medication shortages can serve as a barrier to transitioning to hospice,” Paglino told Hospice News in an email. NYSE: CHEM).

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Treasure Coast Hospice Appoints VP of Medical Services Florida-based Treasure Coast Hospice has tapped Dr. John Crouch as its new vice president of medical services. Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization. Cannone as its new executive vice president and COO.

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

The hospice provider recently took its first step into a new county, with plans to expand across four others. YoloCares provides hospice, palliative and supportive care in five counties across northern California, recently adding a sixth county to its service region. Its palliative care program launched in 2016.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Niagara Hospice CEO Retires Lockport, N.Y.-based based Niagara Hospice will soon have a new president and CEO with the upcoming retirement of John Lomeo, who has led the organization since 2000. Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The health care system, in both private and public settings, that is engaged with financing, managing, and providing palliative and hospice care must directly address the issue of racism, discrimination, and disparities, particularly among marginalized underserved non-Hispanic Blacks,” authors stated in the study.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As part of that process, CMMI is applying elements of its Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) demonstration, which ended Dec. MCCM was designed to test the impact of concurrent hospice and curative care. CMS launched the MCCM in 2016 to explore the idea of allowing hospice patients to receive concurrent curative care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Natarajan’s role expanded after previously serving as the post-acute company’s chief medical officer for hospice since 2005. In addition to oversee AccentCare’s hospice and palliative care programs, he will also support its clinical care operations and patient experience initiatives.

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Hospice News

JUNE 28, 2022

Certificate of need (CON) laws have a huge influence on hospices’ ability to expand, patients’ access to care, as well as the competitive landscape and quality of care in a given market. . It really depends on the current culture of the state,” Lund Person told Hospice News.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

South Dakota-based Avera@Home recently formed a joint venture with personal care provider Kore Cares in a move that grew its service line and geographic reach in the state. Avera@Home Hospice offers hospice, home health and home medical equipment services throughout the Upper Midwest. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Prison populations across the United States saw a 280% rise in incarcerated seniors in this age group from 1999 to 2016, the research found. It is because of the amount of life without parole, life and lengthy sentences that are being handed out. That is not because there is a crime wave by senior citizens.

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

Recent allegations that staff at HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) put pressure on patients to enter hospice dovetail with longstanding questions over how and when patients should be referred. SEIU benchmarked HCA’s hospice transfer rates against national data. million in 2016, according to the U.S. More than 1.72

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Hospice News

JULY 14, 2023

Paul Mastrapa becomes CEO of Interim HealthCare Jennifer Sheets is out as CEO of Interim HealthCare and Caring Brands International. The Florida-based company is a home-based care franchise that provides home health care, hospice care, palliative care, pediatric care and personal care to about 200,000 patients annually from more than 330 U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Croix Hospice recently made changes to its executive team. Croix provides hospice to nearly 4,000 patients daily across the Midwest. The hospice promoted Eric Lewis to chief accounting officer, who joined St. Croix Hospice since 2018, previously serving as director of marketing and communications. Shake Ups in St.

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Hospice News

APRIL 21, 2022

Partners In Care and Summit Health were longtime partners in end-of-life care in the region so the formation of a formal agreement was a natural evolution in this relationship,” Hagfors told Hospice News in an email. Summit Health offers primary, urgent and specialty care services, including palliative care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Indiana-based palliative care provider Center for Hospice Care (CHC) is looking beyond its immediate community and has developed networks that impact palliative care on a global scale. Historic run Getting the Global Partners in Care program to this level has been quite the journey for CHC. hospice leaders.

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NHPCO

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For Immediate Release November 10, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) published the following statement in response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center (CMMI) release of the final Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) report and At-A-Glance report.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

The American Society of Clinical Oncology describes hospice as an essential component of end-of-life (EOL) care. 1 As such, hospice utilization among patients with hematologic malignancies merits scrutiny as an area where hospice utilization is traditionally lower than with solid malignancies.

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Hospice News

MAY 1, 2023

But if they can join with an ACO who does get rewarded for better care and lower outcomes, and they can have a shared savings agreement, they can get rewarded for the better outcomes they create.” Partnering with palliative care providers offers ACOs advantages as well, including significant cost savings, according Schramm.

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Pallimed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Most notably, this includes the publication of the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (2), which updated the guidance previously provided by the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (3). It is unclear whether CDC investigated Ballantyne’s “legal consulting” disclosure more fully.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The JAMA Network Open study found that more than half of cancer decedents in states that require health care providers to offer palliative consultations died at home or at inpatient hospices versus a hospital setting. 2 ‘It’s Where We’re at Right Now’: US Prison System Struggling to Keep Up with Growing Need for Palliative Care (Aug.

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For those who have since passed, we share these in their memories with deep appreciation for what they have taught us about life and living. Rob Riddell, a cancer survivor, had a good life: a job he loved, faith and optimism in spades, and a large, happy family. In 2016, at the young age of 54, the cancer returned.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. ” And, he said, “End of life care.”

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Journey With Deanna

MARCH 30, 2016

Most people love hospice and the mission of hospice. In Dr. Margaret Overton's new memoir, HOPE FOR A COOL PILLOW (Outpost 19, March 2016), she explores about two polar opposite experiences with hospice during the decline and death of her mother and father. End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

Data have shown that of the top 5% of healthcare utilization in the US, only 11% are at the end of life (Aldridge & Kelly, 2015). Many have persistent unmet care needs leading to high costs with questionable quality outcomes (Salzberg, et al. The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-Life Care.

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Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Yet he never formally served as a leader or member of PROP, and until the CDC NCIPC-BSC Meeting on July 16, 2021, Chou avoided all allegations of conflicts of interest (COI) between his opioid research and co-authorship of the 2016 Guideline, unlike several other PROP members (2). Activities that did not pose a conflict (e.g.,

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Hospice News

JANUARY 12, 2023

A federal court has sentenced Akop Atoyan, former co-owner of three California home health and hospice agencies, to 25 months in prison for health care fraud and kickback schemes. He and his wife Liana Karapetyan owned ANG Health Care, Excel Hospice, and Excel Home Healthcare in the Sacramento area.

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The Bucket-List Blog

JUNE 10, 2016

Later, we made this simple video to use as part of our 2016 Bucket-List Challenge. When we shared the story of Mr. Ramirez’s very special wish on o ur Facebook page , it reached nearly 400,000 people. Special thanks to his family, and especially his granddaughter, Blue, for sharing their memories and photos with us, and with you.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Office settings accounted for 61% of all ACP billing between 2016 and 2019, according to OIG. This means some hospice and other providers may face audits or other forms of scrutiny that could ultimately require them to return payments they received for ACP services. This opened the door for greater advance care planning utilization.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. He has an interest in hospice and of life care, pain management and medical ethics. Today, medical aid in dying is legal in some 10 states, and illegal in others. . Alex: Please.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. Palliative care doesn’t work?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. And the nurses says you’re making the right decision.

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